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If you play well, you are praised; if you play badly, you are criticised. Everyone should try to manage it the way they want to.
If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth. — © Miguel de Cervantes
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it. — © Evangeline Lilly
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the matches with doubts.
I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.
You just want so badly to be the best version of what people are saying, you want to look like the covers you're on, but it's hard to do that everyday.
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.
Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.
It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.
...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.
Academics aren't paid very much, but as a single gay man I was never badly off. You don't have kids. You don't have a non-working wife's insatiable demand for shoes or wallpaper.
I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.
Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.
Herve has that sex appeal. Certain bodies need Herve Leger badly because you have to reformulate the silhouette.
I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly. — © Vincent Van Gogh
I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.
The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.
Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs.
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman. — © Rose Henniker Heaton
An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
When I look at all of the things that I see and all of the potential that America has, we have such tremendous potential, whether it's in business and trade, where we're doing so badly.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.
I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.
I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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